There are 12 messages totalling 259 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. "You're eighty-six, man!" (3)

 2. Cross-post: on n X short of a Y (3)

 3. LASSO Call for Papers

 4. Business/[bIdnIs]

 5. Allen Walker Read again

 6. % % Goverment work (saying) (fwd)

 7. Ignore

 8. "You're eighty-six, man



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Date:  Mon, 1 May 1995 03:14:30 EDT

From:  kim mckinzey <74525.1614[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]COMPUSERVE.COM>

Subject: Re: "You're eighty-six, man!"



First time I heard the term 86 was in 1959 or so, when my cousin was learning to

be a ham radio operator. Along with lots of other codes, 86 was the sign-off,

meaning essentially that's it, ain't no more. Obviously, the connotations

continue.



Rima McKinzey